Tom Hardy

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Age: 36 Action hero cred: Beat up Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, Joel Edgerton in Warrior, and half of Britain in Bronson

Our reasoning: Thirty-five years after writer/director George Miller helped launch one future action movie legend in Mel Gibson, there’s little doubt he’ll go 2 for 2 with Hardy, who’ll be jumping into the driver’s seat for Miller’s iconic franchise in the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road. The former male model showed he was more than just another pretty boy by undergoing a serious physical transformation for his breakout role in Bronson and as the muscle-bound Bane, and he’s a versatile, cerebral actor to boot. No wonder he managed to give Christian Bale such a run for his money. Expect Hardy to be a fixture on the Hollywood action scene for years to come.